A Call Of Duty Film Would “Taint the Brand”

Call of Duty has all the makings of a solid action movie – an attempt at a narrative, lots of explosions, stereotyped bad guys and the games themselves are pure popcorn entertainment but don’t expect Call of Duty to be the latest series to jump onto the film adaptation bandwagon.

Activision CEO, Bobby Kotick, recently spoke to the New York Times and revealed that he would not want the Call of Duty franchise to branch out into films. He cited that this would taint the brand as game to film adaptations are rarely well received by fans. This comes amongst rumours of a World of Warcraft movie which doesn’t seem to be more than a wild rumour at this point.

Typically games are poorly translated onto the silver screen and the source material is somewhat disregarded. Presently we’re looking at movies for Assassin’s Creed, Splinter Cell, Need for Speed and more but will any of them be good films? Would you want to see a Call of Duty movie?